Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ co-owner lists Palm Beach house at $45 million

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Among the properties that might appeal to deep-pocket buyers these days in Palm Beach is a fairly new listing that expanded the island’s real estate offerings above $40 million.

Broker Christian Angle of Christian Angle Real Estate two months ago listed 854 S. County Road at $44.9 million for sellers Darcie Glazer Kassewitz and her private banker husband, Joel Kassewitz, who extensively renovated the property. Darcie Kassowitz heads foundations for the Glazer family as well as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The NFL team is co-owned by Glazer family members, including Darcie Kassewitz. Her father was the late billionaire businessman Malcolm Glazer, who died in 2014. In addition to the Buccaneers, he also owned England’s Manchester United soccer team.

Built in 1936, the Kassewitzes’ estate comprises about 2 acres with more than 200 feet of lakefront, just south of the point where South County Road curves to join South Ocean Boulevard. The Estate Section property includes the main residence, a pool cabana and a guesthouse with a combined 16,491-square feet of living space and six bedrooms, property records show.

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Angle’s sales listing also mentions an eat-in "chef’s kitchen," a library and a grandly scaled family and media room. The grounds include a putting green, a covered loggia and the pool, which is set amid lush landscaping. There’s also a dock with a boat lift.

The Kassewitzes bought the property in 2010 from the estate of its the late philanthropist Isabel Collier Read, who lived there for decades before her death in February 2008 at 89. Her first husband was the late Miles Collier, one of the sons of Barron Gift Collier, who developed thousands of acres on the West Coast and was the namesake of Collier County. Isabel Collier later wed the late William A. Read Jr.

The Kassewitzes extensively renovated the estate after buying it for a recorded $20.5 million in an off-market deal orchestrated by agent Gregory Weadock of Brown Harris Stevens.

But this is the first time the property has ever been offered in the MLS, according to Angle’s listing.

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Biggest listings — Not including the an under-contract new house at 1340 S. Ocean Blvd., six Palm Beach properties are listed in MLS above $40 million, a search this week showed. Just scraping that price category is the 1947 oceanfront house at 980 S. Ocean Blvd. that the late Mary Hulitar had shared with her husband, the late Philip Hulitar.

Mary Hulitar, for years a stalwart of Palm Beach’s social and cultural scene, died June 21 at 90. Proceeds from the sale of the property will benefit charitable and cultural organizations through the Hulitar Family Foundation, which Mary Hulitar established.